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Death thought about that for a moment, and then nodded. "That sounds alright," he said smply.
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Tide's face brightened a little with the word.
" That's alright then," he replied with more colour in his voice, as if he was relieved they reached an understanding. " We will all get ready now, I have to put on my dress again, but first, hmm... " he tried to ask it subtly, not to reveal exact nature of Death's weakness before others. " Would you like us to use a bit of balm medicine before we go to the ball? Just so you're more comfortable there. " Eros, despite not knowing much of facts, did feel Tide's need for secrecy, and so, he decided to support it. " Senecio, you makeup is probably in your room, isn't it? And you and Hans need to get ready for the ball too. Would a bit of my help in it be unseemly to you? " he looked at the actor, with a soft smile, but a little more vulnerable, knowing of Senecio's mixed feelings. " I can help you and Hans get dressed up there, while Tide and your guest do their own preparations here. " |
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"Yes, I'll ask you for the balm while Senecio and Hans will be getting ready, but I don't think it should be just yet," Death said. He looked at Senecio strictly. "Tide is right, your soul left your body and that's not a joke. It needs some time to settle in properly, and your body is still dealing with the remnants of poison on the top of that. You should rest at least for an hour or two."
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" The ball will last late into the night, so an hour or two of not being there now won't mean much. " Hans spoke up. He looked a bit better, but still quite frail and pale, with not too coordinated moves, as if everything with him was just a little out of sync, so he probably welcomed an hour or so more until he gets better too. He didn't quite phrase it like that, though. " Are we just going to, like, sit here until then? That sound exceedingly awkward. Who's up for some board game, maybe? There are five of us, Dixit would be good, and I have the best cards on the shore. "
" You want to... play Dixit right now? " Tide asked softly, just to confirm, avoiding any mention of his weakness. " Why not? We've been dealing with life and death situation, and we are like, what? Two personifications, a human, a Spirit and a Demon? That might as well be a start a joke where all of them walk into a bar. " Creature replied wryly with a shrug. " We might as well play a board game to pass the time. " |
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"That sounds good, but I really want that bath first," Senecio said. "I'm so sweaty like I've been running for miles."
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" A bath, like, you want to actually swim in the pool, or a bath, like, I can use water bending to wash you and dry you while you're sitting on the bed? " Tide asked shyly, but he stood up then. " In either case, let me help you out with that. I'll feel better when you smell better too... Um, like, when you smell more healthy and living. " he clarified a little more quietly. " Um, dead cells, they have a particular... scent to them. We didn't let your body cool down, but still, there wasn't enough oxygen, and some cells did get messed up from it... Svarik and Death did heal you, but it sort of lingers still. It's a touch unnerving for me. You'll smell lot of better after a bath and some rest... "
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"You mean to say I smell like a corpse," Senecio said. "I know too well what a corpse smells like... You know what I want? I want warm water in this pool, scented oils and bubbles and candles. And floating in the water, supported in your arms."
Death smiled a little. "You really know what you want, little one, and know how to ask for it. I should be taking notes." |
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Tide grinned a little with that.
" Yes, you definitely need to take notes from him. My Senecio is the best with asking what he wants. " Demon said with unquestionable pride in his voice, and indeed, it seemed his mood improved significantly with that chance to do this for the actor, being given so much detail in what would make him happy. " Hold on, I think I have scented oils and some bubble potions around, and I have a big pack of blue candles somewhere in the storage room! Give me a couple of minutes, and it's going to be great! " Being said, and when he turned to gather things, it was with a much lighter step. He gathered up everything Senecio asked for, and first, he used his power to warm the water, until it was of soothing temperature, the steam reading freely through the air, making people relaxed and drowsy. He then carefully mixed a whole lot of scented oils and bubble mixture, until the whole pool was covered in it, alluring and inviting in the strong aroma of scents demon so carefully balanced together. Then, in the end, all bubbly himself, he found the best places and lit up lot of big blue candles, that seemed to be able to last for quite a while. As he was finishing up, he seemed rather proud of himself for putting it so well together, not really seeming to get how romantic it looks since he was so pleased it fit Senecio's description so closely. |
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"That's perfect," Senecio said. "If someone wants to join, you're welcome, but I'm claiming Tide's arms."
"Not me, thank you," Death smiled. "I really prefer to watch from a bit of distance." |
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" Hans, you were closest to Senecio, so you smell very corpse-y too. " Eros said innocently, like coaxing him. " Will you join me in a bath? You leaned on me for a while and it rubbed off on me, so we're in no shape, going to the ball smelling like that. We need to be at the top of our game, don't we? "
" Oh, well, if you insist, anything for the sake of looking best on the ball. " Hans, who maybe wouldn't agree otherwise, helped Hans slowly enter the water. He supported him from the side, like it's nothing, and seemed rather calm and pleased to help him wash his hair. In meantime, Tide turned his attention to Senecio right now, although he seemed a little shy, now that it came to this. It was a big step, to indulge in something intimate like this after such gruesome event, and Tide's hands were shaking a little, as he took Senecio in his arms, and helped him get into the water, following him into it too. |
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Senecio leant back on him and submerged his hair into the water, floating on it and letting it wash the sticky sweat and smell of death away.
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Tide just held him for a while, just holding onto him, not saying anything, as if he finally had the chance to take in what happened, in a moment of silence, and he remained so for a while, deep in thoughts.
Then, he slowly and hesitantly reached for the actor's hair. First, he caressed it, and then he took the cleaning mixture, and washed it, slowly, without a rush. As it got clean, he took a sponge from the side of the pool and soaked it with a strong mixture of lavender, and just as slowly, as if it wasn't just an experience of cleaning the body, but also the mind, he used it on the rest of actor's body, not only washing away the scent of sweat and death but exchanging it with a new smell that soothed him much more. It seemed as much as the act of helping him reach a better place, as an act of pampering and reassurance of affection, as, after a while, Tide seemed to calm and grow more daring, while rubbing his body with a sponge in soothing circles, also rubbed down some of the sore weary muscles, trying to help exchange the bad memory of painful slow death by poison with a good one where there was nothing to fear. |
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Senecio breathed deeply, relaxing more and more under Tide's touch. His body trembled slightly in the aftershocks of what it has been through, but his expression was peaceful now, feeling safe and content.
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More they prolonged the lazy, drawn-out moment together, more Tide was relaxing as well, as if some calm and slow show of care was cleansing his mind from the dark memory too, and helping him reclaim their closeness. It passed a while, before finally, as if he was gathering the bits of resolve, the demon finally spoke up, whispering quietly to actor's ear.
" I know I always save it for when we are intimate, but this is a special situation where I feel the time is right... " he whispered. " Would it be alright if I touch and handle your soul? Just for a little while. If it begins to feel too overwhelming or personal, you can stop me at any time... " |
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"I thought for a moment you wanted to touch and handle something else," Senecio smirked a little. "Yes, you can. I think it's still a bit upset. If you could do something about it, it's welcome. Well, it's welcome even if you can't."
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" Well, I actually kind of do... I can't lie, you are so persistently tempting me right now. " demon whispered in bathed breath. " But I'd rather save that for a more private setting... But this, we can do right now..." Finally, after being rather sombre until now, Tide teased him softly and leaned his head against actor's as he floated in the water - and did what he craved more right now, though, and touched his soul.
It was different from the other times, though. Previously, Tide would always brush along the surface of the soul in moments of their intimacy, in a way that would increase his physical pleasure. This time, Senecio's body tensed up like a spring under the first touch, not because it felt arousing, but because it was a touch much deeper, and felt more revealing than any before. With it, Senecio felt extremely aware, of just how frail and unsettled his soul has been, after being pushed roughly out of the body and then pushed back in. Senecio felt deeply aware of the connection of his soul and body, and how frail it was in certain places, as if, after the agony, it had been through, even smallest of pains could make the soul shy away from it... But that feeling didn't last for long. Tide leaned his mind against the places where the connection was loose, tapping them lightly first, and then, rubbing them down, evening out the uneven reddened parts of the upset soul skillfully. To the traumatized soul, each move felt like a balm, as it was a reminder of how good it feels to be alive and be handled right. Under his continuous touch, the soul settled more and more comfortably, melting under emotional pleasure. For the first time, the actor could feel just how masterful Tide's skill in this was, at how well he understood and responded to reaction's of Senecio's soul. He felt like he was a musical instrument, and his soul was being played upon. There was a conflict within such deep experience. On one side, suddenly surfaced a memory of being poisoned by the person actor once would do anything for, a memory than left deep emotional wound - and with it, a memory of sweaty hands touching him roughly from the grave. And then, there was this memory, fresh and overwhelming in the mind - a memory of his tense soul melting and shifting with pleasure to just right spot within his body, under a touch that was deeply refreshing, like an intimate rain upon the scorched land, softening the soil more and more longer it lasted. |
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Senecio was not ashamed to moan with the pleasant sensations. With the soothing of his soul, the lingering aches in his body lessened as well and he actually felt some strength returning to him.
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This time Tide really went deeper and more overwhelming than usual, almost as if overcompensating for the fear of never being able to feel his soul again. There was something familiar in the gesture, though, and Senecio realized it after a while - it reminded him a little on times when they would be intimate, and Tide would cuddle and nestle with him, leaving his scent all over him to mark him as his. After all the tending of the soul, actor could feel a bit of aftertaste of Tide's aura close to him, lingering.... Tide did not speak, but his posture, while protective, also seemed to feel uncharacteristically posessive. The way he longingly handled him almost seemed like one of primordial hunger.
Only after that initial need was barely sated, the touch grew less overwhelming and deep. It didn't stop, though. Tide buried his face in actor's hair as he kept soothing him quietly. This time tending felt much more subtle and simple. It didn't even feel like a touch this time - for the lack of better comparison, he had a feeling like he was floating in the cup, his soul weightless and soft, with a consistency of a marshmallow, surrounded from all sides only by the soothing hot chocolate. That was Tide's presence, and it was holding the marshmallow in place, letting it breathe, but not letting it go. There was some deep beastly posessiveness in the gesture, and it was unusual to see it in Tide, but it was clearly there now - and the beast was, unexpectedly, howling quietly as it held him, knowing that since he is better, it would have to let go eventually as it gets too much, but after what happened, not feeling like ever letting go. |
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It was indeed too much after a while and Senecio started to drift towards sleep, shutting out the pleasant but overwhelming presence, despite feeling content in it.
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Despite the beastly possessiveness that made it hard to talk right now, there was one distant thought lingering behind it, pestering the creature - the thought that Senecio really desired to go to the ball tonight. Only with that, slowly, like it was physically paining it to stop, did the creature let go, gradually, as if each step back held a weight of the thousand miles until at last, Senecio felt he was fully himself, despite the lingering peaceful scent of Tide's aura left behind.
The demon seemed emotionally exhausted from mental strength it took him to tear away from him, and it didn't look up - it kept leaning its head quietly against Senecio's head, his face buried in actor's hair, holding against his shoulder vulnerably, his fingers shaking a little with too many feelings. |
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Senecio blinked, coming to his senses slowly. He reached his hand backwards to bury it in Tide's hair. "Oh, that was nice... I'm feeling so much better now... Pearl?"
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Demon slowly leaned his head towards Senecio's touch, but he didn't reply right away, as if struggling with right words that would not come.
" If... if you were gone... " he whispered with heaviness, the words with which the main song from the play was starting seeming to be ingrained deeper in his memory than he thought. But he didn't end the sentence with a comparison like it had, though. " I would have never... had a chance... to tend to your soul for the first time... to make you a nice bath... to hold you close again.... closer each day... " he rasped the words with great effort. " You... you are the most shameless man I ever met. You are not ashamed of indulging in anything I can give you. If you were gone, I... would never be able to find anyone... anyone who wouldn't pale, in comparison to you... " |
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"It's scary to think about it," Senecio murmured. "Better don't. I'm here. I won't leave you."
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" Well, you better not. You need to take responsibility for me, you know... " Tide murmured, timidly leaning his head against him, only lightly, slowly, revealing his big, vulnerable blue eyes, watching him quietly from the side as they lay in the water. " Before, I used to be just so happy when someone was kind and understanding to me... Now, you've raised my expectations of what a perfect boyfriend is through the roof... " hesitantly, he caressed his cheek. " Even if suddenly the world turned upside down, and everyone I had a crush on ended up returning it, I don't think I could be satisfied. Sage, Conrad, Svarik or Erdel... or anyone else... because none of them is you... "
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"I think they are thankful for not being me," Senecio smirked. "Which is good, because I quote enjoy being me. Especially with you."
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